Climate change is allowing biting flies to move farther North, partly because it’s getting warmer, and partly because it’s raining more often in the summer, creating more soggy breeding grounds.
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Illustration by Tonia Cowan
Rankin Inlet’s Kivalliq Arctic Food blends tradition with innovation.
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Clockwise: traditional pipsi, caught, brined dried and voila—the essence of char; candied char belly, brined with brown sugar, it melts in your mouth; mesquite and regular flavoured char sticks, for fish-lovers on the go. Photo by Angela Gzaowski
How to dive into an iceberg, swim with canaries of the sea, avoid seamonsters in the Arctic—and much more. Take a plunge into our 15 top watery Northern getaways.
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Alexandra Falls is one of several highlights of the Mackenzie Highway waterfall route. Photo by Adam Hill
Whiskey Flats is long gone, but Whitehorse's makeshift community left a memorable mark
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Riverfront roots: Whitehorse, circa the turn of the last century, where paddle-wheeled steamers lined the shores of the Yukon River to carry on good from the end of the White Pass railway.
A peek behind the scenes of the business of running a Northern lodge: from blizzards, bear invasions and caretakers gone crazy, to the ever-changing face of tourism.
Written by Margo Pfeiff, Up Here
A peek behind the scenes of the business of running a Northern lodge: from blizzards, bear invasions and caretakers gone crazy, to the ever-changing face of tourism.
Written by Margo Pfeiff, Up Here
Illustration by Michael Byers
Roadtripping through the Sahtu the only time we could: the depths of winter
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Trees thin out nearing the Arctic Circle. Photo by Angela Gzowski
